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This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Ralph Paffenbarger (1922–2007) — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active people reduce their risk of heart disease and live longer; George Papanicolaou (1883–1962) — Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection; inventor of the Pap smear; Paracelsus (1493–1541) — founder of toxicology
Silvano Raia - Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989; B. K. Misra - First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
Efren Saldivar — Murdered 60+ people while working in Brownsville, Texas as a respiratory therapist. Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science . Mary Ann Vecchio — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Health professionals: Physicians Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
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Name Birth Death Nationality Notes Reference(s) Maude Abbott: 1869: 1940: Canada [1] Robert Adams: 1791: 1875: Ireland [2] Anthony Adducci: 1937: 2006: United States: Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3] Raymond Perry Ahlquist: 1914: 1983: United States [4] John Ainsworth: 1957 – British: Treating ...